Restoration Druid Review of Keeper of the Grove Hero Talents - Content Viability Concerns
16.02.2024 - 19:15
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This past week, Blizzard revealed another round of Hero Talent Trees in a Sneak Peek at the upcoming War Within system. Our Restoration Druid guide writer, Voulk, offers an early review of the Keeper of the Grove Druid Hero Talent that
Hero Talents are an extension of the Talent system designed to explore class fantasy with a third talent tree, separate from your class and specialization. Blizzard has revealed an early preview of Hero Talents coming in the next expansion, The War Within.
The War Within Hero Talents Overview
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Restoration Druid First Impressions: Keeper of the Grove Hero Talents
Grove Guardians were introduced in 10.1.7 and were initially met with cautious approval. A healing button (or in effect a HoT) that was off the global cooldown is unique in WoW and they complemented the ramp-heavy playstyle fairly well. Their rapid promotion from mid-tier talent to the focus of a tier set and now a full Hero tree has not been quite as warmly received. As Grove Guardians become more and more central to our rotation, awkward issues they have around targeting become a bigger problem. When they're 7-8% of our healing it doesn't matter all that much that we have little control over their targeting because the other 92% of our spells can cover any deficit. As they creep into the 30%+ region we start to feel more like a pet class, which has never been part of the Resto Druid identity. Pushing Grove Guardians towards a Hero tree does at least compartmentalize them a little bit and for those that don't enjoy the playstyle there'll be an alternative in Wildstalker, which I have very high hopes for. Hopefully, it'll fill more of a traditional Resto Druid theme around heal-over-time effects and strong cooldowns. Both concepts are missing from this tree.
We'll look through each node soon, but I should say that only one branch of Keeper of the Grove is Grove Guardian focused. There are plenty of talents here that affect the rest of our abilities too. Keep in mind when reading through this that there are a lot of unknowns still and we're missing a lot of the picture of how the spec will play.
Node Walkthrough
Most of these nodes have a Balance and a Resto druid portion. I've focused on the Resto druid portions below and some
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